5104.21
Child day camp registration.

(A)
The
department of job and family services shall register child day camps and
enforce this section and section
5104.22 of the Revised Code and
the rules adopted pursuant to those sections. No person, firm, organization,
institution, or agency shall operate a child day camp without annually
registering with the department.

(B)
A
person, firm, institution, organization, or agency operating any of the
following programs is exempt from the provisions of this section and section
5104.22 of the Revised Code:

(1)
A child
day camp that operates for two or less consecutive weeks and for no more than a
total of two weeks during each calendar year;

(2)
Supervised training, instruction, or activities of children that is conducted
on an organized or periodic basis no more than one day a week and for no more
than six hours' duration and that is conducted in specific areas, including,
but not limited to, art; drama; dance; music; gymnastics, swimming, or another
athletic skill or sport; computers; or an educational subject;

(3)
Programs in which the department determines that at least one parent,
custodian, or guardian of each child attending or participating in the child
day camp is on the child day camp activity site and is readily accessible at
all times, except that a child day camp on the premises of a parent's,
custodian's, or guardian's place of employment shall be registered in
accordance with division (A) of this section;

(4)
Child
day camps funded and regulated or operated and regulated by any state
department, other than the department of job and family services, when the
department of job and family services has determined that the rules governing
the child day camp are equivalent to or exceed the rules adopted pursuant to
this section and section
5104.22 of the Revised
Code.

(C)
A
person, firm, organization, institution, or agency operating a child day camp
that is exempt under division (B) of this section from registering under
division (A) of this section may elect to register itself under division (A) of
this section. All requirements of this section and the rules adopted pursuant
to this section shall apply to any exempt child day camp that so elects to
register.

(D)
The
director of job and family services shall adopt pursuant to Chapter 119. of the
Revised Code rules prescribing the registration form and establishing the
procedure for the child day camps to register. The form shall not be longer
than one typewritten page and shall state both of the following:

(1)
That
the child day camp administrator or the administrator's representative agrees
to provide the parents of each school-age child who attends or participates in
that child day camp with the telephone number of the county department of
health and the public children services agency of the county in which the child
day camp is located;

(2)
That
the child day camp administrator or the administrator's representative agrees
to permit a public children services agency or the county department of health
to review or inspect the child day camp if a complaint is made to that
department or any other state department or public children services agency
against that child day camp.

(E)
The
department may charge a fee to register a child day camp. The fee for each
child day camp shall be twenty-five dollars. No organization that operates, or
owner of, child day camps shall pay a fee that exceeds two hundred fifty
dollars for all of its child day camps.

(F)
If a
child day camp that is required to register under this section fails to
register with the department in accordance with this section or the rules
adopted pursuant to it or if a child day camp that files a registration form
under this section knowingly provides false or misleading information on the
registration form, the department shall require the child day camp to register
or register correctly and to pay a registration fee that equals three times the
registration fee as set forth in division (E) of this section.

(G)
A child
day camp administrator or the administrator's representative shall provide the
parents of each school-age child who attends or participates in
that child day camp with the telephone numbers of the county department of
health and the county public children services agency of the county in which
the child day camp is located and a statement that the parents may use these
telephone numbers to contact or otherwise contact the departments or agency to
make a complaint regarding the child day camp.